Thursday, April 10, 2008
LINK-O-RAMA
Obama, King: A belated link to Christopher Hitchens' ruminations on how those who claim the mantle of Martin Luther King, Jr. don't deserve it.
More Black: Two fascinating links from AvLeak -- here and here -- that make a pretty good case that there is near-flying hardware already in the Air Force program for a "next generation bomber."
War Notes: Some more or less random notes on things going on in the war that most people don't acknowledge exists: The UK courts won't let the government deport a known al Qaida operative. At the same time, prison officials in England may be about to allow Muslim sex offenders opt out of the mandatory treatment program for such perverts because it's "offensive to Islam." Meanwhile, the US news face that Al Jazeera English recruited speaks about why he finally quit in disgust at the gross anti-American bias there. At the other end of the spectrum, i.e. the micro-level of daily life in Muslim countries, stories like this don't even attract notice in the West: A member of the Hindu minority in Pakistan is beaten to death by his factory coworkers because he said something they didn't like about old Mo. Finally, here's a long review of a book that tackles something that I've often thought of in my Arab and Muslim studies: That tribalism is one of the main roots of both the actual social and political dynamics in the Muslim world, and also is a key element of Islam itself.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 5:02 PM
|
|
